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Just think for a moment; with all that is going on in the world today, the Democrats' message of the day yesterday was that the Republican chairman compared the issue of women’s health to an insect infestation.

Of course, he didn’t.

One only needs to listen to the Al Hunt interview to confirm that he did not make that comparison; but the news media treated the claim as hard and serious news. Am I the only person in Washington pulling his hair out over the absurdity of this latest news release out of the DNC; and the news media’s hunger for insignificant garbage like this?

Polls in April, seven months before the elections, are as meaningless as polls taken eight months out. Michael Dukakis was 17 points ahead of George H. W. Bush only 10 weeks before the election. Dukakis went on to lose in a landslide. Polls, gender gaps, head to heads? They mean nothing right now.

On Election Day, Democrats will win the votes of women who are concerned with caterpillars, condoms, the wicked Catholics, Occupy protests, and Obama fanatics. In fact, they will win the votes of any man or women unconcerned with the president’s record over the first four years – a record the president can’t possibly run on.

Republicans will win the votes of women (and men) who are concerned with the world the Obama Administration is leaving their children; $15 trillion in debt, $1.5 trillion deficit, $5 gasoline, net job loss, multi-billion dollar green energy scandals like Solyndra and Solar Trust, mindless ill-advised and tragic Obama initiatives like Fast and Furious, runaway federal spending, Egypt firing rockets at Israel, Iran’s position in the world, and GSA officials wasting taxpayer dollars and then proudly creating a music video about wasting the money .

The media will make every effort to drive a gender gap, but Republicans are confident that on Election Day most women will go to the polls and base their vote on the big issues of the day and not caterpillars and birth control.

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